Steve Hopkins

Steve Hopkins is the President and CEO of ANSER, a not-for-profit analytic company committed exclusively to public service.

Steve brings a wealth of expertise garnered from his more than 30 years as a research and business leader at ANSER, which supplies federal, state, and local government officials with objective, timely, and forward-thinking analysis of complex technological, policy, and other complex issues independent of political or commercial influences.

Prior to his promotion to CEO, Steve served as ANSER’s Chief Operating Officer where he led technical and analytical studies across a myriad of challenging domains including homeland defense, combating weapons of mass destruction, mission assurance, science and technology, and global threats and intelligence. His experience covers implementing complex technology-focused programs across the Federal Government to include: the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Defense Agencies, the Military Services, NASA, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Intelligence Community. For six months in 1994 he lived and worked in Moscow as head of ANSER’s Moscow Office.

He is a graduate of the Defense Systems Management College (now Defense Acquisition University) Advanced Program Management Course and completed executive leadership courses at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management as well as at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Business. He has degrees from the United States Naval Academy and the University of Chicago, where he was a Hertz Foundation Fellow.